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There's a lot of stuff in here. Join our community! You can get a nice tour in the Getting Started section and also by viewing Navigating Math Tools by Bethany Hudnutt.

Opportunities

For teachers of students in grades 5-9: Participate in our online workshop: Using Technology and Problem Solving to Build Algebraic Reasoning starting January 28 and running through March 10. This workshop is free. Participants who successfully complete the workshop will receive a $25 coupon to apply to the cost of any of our online courses. Those participants can also receive 1.5 CEUs for a fee of $25 to cover administrative costs. Register now!

For students in grades 3-12: Write expressions for each of the counting numbers 1 through 100, using the digits in the year 2010, standard operations, and grouping symbols.

Students may use the Web form to submit solutions starting January 1, 2010; revisit the site after February 1, 2010, to see the first solutions.

What's Hot?

[January 15] Fraction Wall Games - Equivalent Fractionss: Rod+1 wrote, "I converted the concept to a set of Flash games that I have called Fraction Wall Games. It would be great to feedback to the forum on ways that these could be used in your classroom."

[January 14] Math in the Workplace: rfantster explained, "I am creating a presentation to demonstrate how math is used in my work experiences (while in the U.S. Army), specifically, Field Artillery Surveying."

[January 13] Math Tutorial Software: onesimone asked, "Is the Maple 13 student edition software a good tutorial package to assist someone in [reacquainting oneself] with college level Algebra, Calculus and Statistics?"

We have freely accessible puzzles ranging in size from 3x3 to 9x9, at four difficulty levels, with many combinations of arithmetic operations.

Gail at one of our workshops